Keewatin Country Graduate Student History Conference April 29-May 1, 2010 Preliminary Programme

Keewatin Country Graduate Student History Conference
April 29-May 1, 2010
Preliminary Programme
Thursday
3:30 pm.
Registration
6:00 pm.
Cocktails (Salon D)
6:30 pm.
Dinner, followed by opening remarks and the keynote address by Dr.
Whitney P. Lackenbauer, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo
(Salon D) Presentation: Sovereignty Includes Me: Northerners, National
Security, and Sovereignty since the Second World War
Friday
8:00am. – 9:00am. – Breakfast (Mountain Grill)
9:00am. – 10:30am.
A) Innovative Sources and Approaches I (Salon A)
Chair: Garry Zellar, University of Saskatchewan
Jordan Bass (University of Manitoba), There They Were, Now Here We Are: A History
of Archiving Personal Electronic Records and How the Next Generation of
Personal Digital Archives are Better Prepared Than They Think
Katherine Allen (University of Saskatchewan), Waters and Syrups: The
Deconstruction of Eighteenth-Century British Medicinal Recipes for Modern
Medical Applications
B) Changing Aboriginal Communities (Salon B)
Chair: Jim Miller, University of Saskatchewan
Allyson Stevenson (University of Saskatchewan), AIM: The historical emergence of
Saskatchewan's Transracial Adoption Deal
Sarah Ramsden (Queen’s University), Aboriginal Work Programs in the Modern
Resource Community of Leaf Rapids, Manitoba (1971-1977)
Warren Bernauer, Mining and resistance in Baker Lake, Nunavut
C) Negotiating Place in British Society (Salon C)
Chair: Greg Smith, University of Manitoba
J. Marc MacDonald (University of Saskatchewan), Enlightenment Nexus: Turn of the
Nineteenth-Century Interconnections in Science, Philanthropy, Industry, and
Cosmopolitan Traffic
Robert Morley (University of Saskatchewan), The Marketing and Promotion of
Aviation Films in the 1930s
Kurt Krueger (University of Saskatchewan), ‘If this and all my other great qualities
were known, all the women almost in the room would be making love to me’:
Manliness and Boswell’s Identity Crisis, 1762-1763
10:30am – 10:45am – Refreshment Break
10:45 am. – 12:15 pm.
A) Encounters with(in) Colonialism (Salon A)
Chair: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba
Kimberly Pohl (University of Manitoba), Structured Spaces, Structured Identities:
Oblate and Metís Contact in Saint-Laurent, Manitoba, 1868-1948
Jon G. Malek (University of Manitoba), ‘From Conquest to Colony’: The
Legitimation of Spanish Empire in the Philippines
Mallory Richard (University of Manitoba), Colonialism and the Fur Trade in
Canadian Public Memory
B) The Social History of Medicine (Salon B)
Chair: Esyllt Jones, University of Manitoba
Erna Kurbegovic (University of Manitoba), The Sterilization Debate in Manitoba,
1933
Leah Morton (University of Manitoba), From serums and immobilization to hot packs
and nursing shortages: the transformation of nursing during Manitoba's polio
epidemics, 1928-1953
Lindsay Dawn Baker (University of Winnipeg), Influence in Manitoba's German
Newspapers
C) The Rural Experience in Western Canadian History (Salon C)
Chair: Gerald Friesen, University of Manitoba
Laura Larsen (University of Saskatchewan), The ‘Great Grain Robbery’: Canadian
Myths and Legends
Merle Massie (University of Saskatchewan), When the Enemy Became the Ally:
Soldier Settlements in the Forest Fringe
Jill Sutherland (University of Brandon), A Co-operative Springboard: The Manitoba
Pool Library’s role in culture, education and public libraries in Manitoba
12:15pm. – 1:30pm. – Lunch (Mountain Grill)
1:30pm. – 2:45pm.
Local History Presentation by Dr. Lynn Whidden, Brandon
University (Salon A-C)
Presentation: Mawesha Anishnawbak Keyutotunmok (In times
past Indian people listened). Sounds the Ojibwe heard in the
Riding Mountain area between 1870 and 1936
2:45pm. – 3:00pm. – Refreshment Break
3:00 – 4:30
A) Impacts of a Globalized Economy (Salon A)
Chair: Mark Gabbert, University of Manitoba
Jason Dyck (University of Manitoba), Dialectical Diffusion: Technology Transfer,
the Green Revolution, and Indian Agricultural Knowledge
Shawn Defoort (University of Manitoba), South Korea: The Role of Political
Conjunctures in Economic Development
B) Relating Class and Ethnicity (Salon B)
Chair: Peter Ives, University of Winnipeg
Liam Haggarty (University of Saskatchewan), Métis Welfare: Indigenous Systems of
Sharing in Northwest Saskatchewan, 1770-1870
Emmet Collins (University of Manitoba), Divided Minority: Franco-Manitobans and
the Forest Case
Gustavo Velasco (University of Manitoba), Land, Class, and Power: the Formation
of Winnipeg’s Bourgeoisie after Confederation
C) Explorations in Latin American History (Salon C)
Chair: Jorge Nallim, University of Manitoba
Marie-Christine Dugal (University of Saskatchewan), Discourse and Interpretation of
a Violent Past: Comparisons Between Argentina and Guatemala
Kelly Holmes (University of Manitoba), Cuba’s ‘Special Period’: American Policies
and Perceptions
Kelly Anne Butler (University of Saskatchewan), There is no remembering without
forgetting: Mapmaking and religious architecture in Guatemala
6:00 pm.
Cocktails (Salon D)
6:30 pm.
Dinner, with after-dinner presentation by Dr. Simonne Horwitz,
University of Saskatchewan (Salon D)
Presentation: Can you save the world… with a history degree?
Saturday
8:00am.-9:00am – Breakfast (Mountain Grill)
9:00 am. – 10:30 am.
A) Aboriginal Justice and Welfare (Salon A)
Chair: Thomas Nesmith, University of Manitoba
Karine R. Duhamel (University of Manitoba), Red Tide Rising: Pan-Indigenous
Movements and Indigenous Critiques in Canada, 1968-75
Margaret Anne Lindsay (University of Manitoba), Archives and Justice: Willard
Ireland’s Contribution to the Changing Legal Framework for Aboriginal Rights
in Canada, 1963-1973
Sarah Roberts (University of Saskatchewan), ‘Hijacking Discourses’: Lessons from
Twenty-Eight Years of AIDS-in-Africa Research?
B) Perspectives on Gender and Class in History (Salon B)
Chair: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba
Erin Acland (University of Manitoba), The purpose of etiquette: Mrs. Beeton's 'Book
of Household Management' and Constructions of Science, Empire, and Gender
Andrea Martin (University of Manitoba), 'The guiding star of the great plains':
Manitoba Women and Unpaid Labour, 1880-1939
Elizabeth-Anne Johnson (University of Winnipeg), Oure Lorde Gaf Me Space and
Tyme: Julian of Norwich and Medieval English Anchoresses
C) Lobby and Revolt (Salon C)
Chair: James Naylor, University of Brandon
Christine Shumay (University of of Brandon), Why the Brandon Loyal Orange Lodge
tried to save Canada from the Pope
Stephen Grandpré (University of Western Ontario), Anthony Giddens and the
Intellectual Origins of New Labour
Mark Sholdice (University of Guelph), The Social Gospel as the Religion of the
Agrarian Revolt in Ontario?
10:30am. – 10:45am. – Refreshment Break
10:45am. – 12:15pm.
A) Narratives on Social and Economic History (Salon A)
Chair: Whitney Lackenbauer, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo
Ryan Eyford (University of Manitoba), Family and Household Economy Among the
first Icelandic migrants to the Canadian Northwest, 1875-1901
Omeasoo Butt (University of Saskatchewan), Mining the Hudson’s Bay Archives for
Ethnohistory: Connecting Economic Documents to Cree and Déné Life in
Northwestern Saskatchewan, 1819-1827
Stephanie Danyluk (University of Saskatchewan), Social Constructions of Childhood
in Stó:lõ Kinship Narratives
B) Rights and Marginalization (Salon B)
Chair: Simonne Horwitz, University of Saskatchewan
Chris Bentley (University of Brandon), ‘No grass will grow under my grave’: The
case of a black, peg-legged American tramp in a Nineteenth century Ontario
court
Vanda Fleury (University of Manitoba), Whispers in the Valley: Voices of our
Grandmothers
Graham Stinnett (University of Manitoba), To Be Disappeared Twice: Human Rights
Commission of El Salvador and the Archival Imperative
C) Innovative Sources and Approaches II (Salon C)
Chair: Keith Carlson, University of Saskatchewan
Deanna Diener (University of Saskatchewan), Historiographical Approaches to
Futuristic Culture
Paul Aikenhead (University of Saskatchewan), "Send me some daisies": The
construction of masculinity in the Tragically Hip's 'Fifty-Mission Cap'
Adam Grieve (University of Saskatchewan), The fact and fiction behind Buffalo Bill's
'Wild West'
12:15pm.-1:15pm. – Lunch, with closing remarks (Salon D)